mindfulness

I read in Wikipedia: "Currently, the Earth is in an icehouse climate state. About 34 million years ago, ice sheets began to form in  Antarctica ; the ice sheets in the  Arctic  did not start forming until 2 million years ago. [5]  Some processes that may have led to our current icehouse may be connected to the development of the Himalayan Mountains and the opening of the  Drake Passage  between  South America  and Antarctica. Scientists have been attempting to compare the past transitions between icehouse and greenhouse, and vice versa to understand where our planet is now heading. Without the human influence on the greenhouse gas concentration, the Earth would be heading toward a  glacial  period. Predicted changes in  orbital forcing  suggest that in absence of human-made  global warming  the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now [  (see  Milankovitch cycles ). But due ...

This a is a big question  and of course no one has an answer that suits all of us. Let's start with the problem that some of us see, but the most of us seem to not grip. Climate change may be an existential question. Why? Is it not the solution political and technical? If whe more and more produce energy with solar and wind power and drive electric cars we will stop climate change.... Sustainable development is just a some words without meaning. There no such thing. Yes, people that ate selling things, like Elon Musk, wants it to be true. What will the mining for the ingredients in the batteries mean for nature?  And is the e-cares just an excuse for to go on with economic growth? Some says this is a question how to relate to death. Both the death of the individual and of our civilization How to relate to the fast that everything comes to an end. But the same persons that use to say that we are in real danger also use to say that our world may be very rare. F...

Have you seen one? Anyway, I haven´t. And in the Diamond Sutra Buddha express that even himself is not enlightened. What, you may be ask. Was Buddha not enlightened? Well that depends if there once was a Buddha walking on this earth. What, is the Buddha just a fantasy figure in a story? Yes, maybe.... Here is what what Buddha asks a monk in the Diamond Sutra:                                             Tell me, Subhuti. Does a monk say to himself 'I have                                            obtained Perfect Enlightenment´ ?                                           No, Lord. There are no such thing as Perfect Enlightenment      ...

You may have heard of the anthroposophic reason why the universe is shaped the way it is: It's because we are here! The universe wanted us to be here, so it was shaped to make us humans to appear... Why not? If you are religious you may think that God created the laws that in the end created us. "In the beginning God created..." Or it may be that we are created by algorithms that was created by... what? That's anyway a anthroposophic claims. The anthropic reason why we are here is that the universe was created to produce life or maybe consciousness. As somebody has said; even a sun may have some consciousness and maybe a galaxy may have it. (with another relation to time - maybe it takes a year for a galaxy  to say hello.... ;~) The third reason may be chance; there are so many multiverses out there, so one of them must be suited for life. Or we may say; one of them must be suited for complex things as the human brain. We may never know, though some ph...

Qualia is an interesting word. Its interpretation is not so clear. But usually its described as the subjective consciousness experience. That is what we all have but what is quite difficult to share. For example the colour blue, how can we explain it for another person? And if we point to a blue dress and the other person says; no, that's a black dress? (that has happened to me...) Actually qualia has never been proven as a fact. But we all now that it exists. On of the Royal academies in Sweden has a big crisis. Its the one that choose the winner of the Nobel prize in literature. Last time it was a surprised Bob Dylan who got the price. Many criticized the  academy to give price to a singer songwriter, while others applauded it. Anyway the head of the academy was a woman, Sarah Danius, until recent days. Now she had leaved the place because of big quarrels in the group. Actually three other members that supported Danius has leaved. And the people left are accused of bei...

I know, you shouldn't mix up the quantum world with "our" world. But Rovelli, the theoretical physicists, seems to do it. He anyway describes the quantum world in this way; "Quantum mechanism teaches us not ti think about the world in terms of `things` which are in this or that state but in terms of `processes`instead. A process is the passage from one interaction to another. The properties of  `things`manifest themselves in a granular manner only in the moment of interaction, that is to say, at the edges of the processes and are such only in relation to other things.....an electron is nowhere when it is not interacting" (from the book Reality is not what it seems) Yesterday I met five monastics in the Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. They gave us lay people meditations and we shared some questions to them. In the eyes of Rovelli and Buddha, we all interacted, even when we meditated. Maybe some of us lay people meditated in a deeper way than som...

Is Roger right? Well he for sure believe he is... " Believe in whatever is good for you". That is a common advice in a postmodern time. It's a very broad view, and a relativistic one. Let people believe in what they want,  don't argue.  Even Buddha had that advice; dont be hooked on a view.  But he even meant; don't stick to anything, not even to yourself. I guess that in the light of reincarnation.  Let's say that there no right view... Anyway no one that we can discover.  It's probably good to have many views or perspectives. Will that not be like schizophrenia?  Well not if you don't have many of them at the same time.  But who would trust you?  Maybe its a view to be compassionate.  It seems that that behavior make you glad.  But will it make you survive?  Is aggression and violence not a part of life, produced by evolution?  Every specie seem to fight each other.  Lets...